“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.”

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Life should be great rather than long.

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.